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November
2012
by Darren Lim
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Reflections from “Daddy in Wonderland”
Last week we brought our kids to Legoland and it being only 15 minutes from Tuas checkpoint, we quickly arrived there and the kids were ecstatic! However, because we had gone on that week which coincided with PSLE marking days, the waiting time at the…
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October
2012
by Darren Lim
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Mother Tongue
I just came back from leading a trip to Harbin, China and the first thing that struck me: it isn’t so much the beautiful scenery but the perfect Mandarin that was spoken there. Not that there was nothing to talk about with regard to the…
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October
2012
by Darren Lim
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Less is More
As you have read previously, Evelyn and I went on a 10-day sailing course in early September and came back with our certification from RYA, qualifying us as Day Skippers. Well, the truth of the matter is, I came back with ‘a little more’ —…
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September
2012
by Darren Lim
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It Takes a village To Raise A Child….
It takes a village to raise a child………….. at least our in-laws…… Recently, being bitten by the sailing bug, Evelyn and I decided to take up the RYA Day Skipper Sailing course, which takes a total of 10 days full- time to cover both the…
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August
2012
by Darren Lim
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Little Duckling Learns To Swim
Little duckling learns to swim I remember a few years ago, when I was a member with the SAF Yatch Club, I had seen some children out at sea, each on a little dinghy with their instructor next to them on a power boat, instructing…
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August
2012
by Darren Lim
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Arise & Shine
One of the things we quickly realized after not having a helper was that there is now less time to do things we like to do in a day, like reading a nice book in the afternoons when Way is sleeping or strolling down the…